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November 25, 2024
I Samuel 15:1-16:23; John 8:1-20; Psalm 110:1-7; Proverbs 15:8-10

“When Samuel came to him, Saul said, ‘May the Lord bless you. I have carried out the Lord’s instructions.’ Samuel replied, ‘Then what is this sound of sheep and cattle I hear?’ Saul answered, ‘The troops brought them from the Amalekites and spared the best sheep and cattle in order to offer a sacrifice to the Lord your God, but the rest we destroyed.’ ‘Stop!’ exclaimed Samuel, ‘Let me tell you what the Lord said to me last night.’ ‘Tell me,’ he replied. Samuel continued, ‘Although you once considered yourself unimportant, have you not become the leader of the tribes of Israel? The Lord anointed you king over Israel and then sent you on a mission and said: ‘Go and completely destroy the sinful Amalekites. Fight against them until you have annihilated them.’ So why didn’t you obey the Lord? Why did you rush on the plunder and do what is evil in the Lord’s sight?’

 

‘But I did obey the Lord!’ Saul answered…’The troops took sheep and cattle from the plunder – the best of what was set apart for destruction – to sacrifice to the Lord your God at Gilgal.’ Then Samuel said: ‘Does the Lord take pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the Lord? Look: to obey is better than sacrifice, to pay attention is better than the fat of rams.'” (I Samuel 15:13-20a, 21-22)

 

Because of his disobedience, the Lord took the kingdom from Saul. Some may be thinking the Lord is pretty harsh for doing that but I Samuel 13:13 records the same type of disobedience committed by Saul. These are just two recorded times, there’s no telling how many times he succumbed to this character defect. Because Saul was moved more by the opinions of men rather than the Lord he ended up forfeiting his right to the throne. The Lord is very tolerant and long-suffering toward His children, but we would do well to bear in mind that there is a day of reckoning for repeat offenders. Bottom line is that Saul’s heart was not with the Lord. Further down in the chapter he even referred to God as “your God” to Samuel. What’s that mean, is He not your God also Saul? Hmm…

 

Just don’t get too big for your britches, maintain your relationship with God and keep your heart right and the Lord will always be for you.

 

PRAYER:

Lord, I ask You to forgive me. I want to have a healthy respect for You and while I want to have fellowship with other people, I don’t ever want to place them above You. I ask You to give me a desire to remain close to You and also please help me to keep a sweet heart. Lord, I don’t ever want to fall under deception where I condone disobedience in my life. I surrender to You. In the name of Jesus I pray. Amen.
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Pastor Ricky and Jeannie Sinclair

From Ricky’s book, Miracle-at-Large, Ricky became an evangelist spreading the word of God through his testimony. He was a fire. He would go in, light it up and encourage people in the places he shared his testimony. When you’re an evangelist, you breeze in and breeze out, and you don’t have to worry about hurting anyone. But that was the start of the ministry. His evangelism was birthed from the book that came out, which gave him a platform. People started following us and we gave them resources and suggested churches to get plugged into. However, we developed a following of people that would not go anywhere else but honestly, it was not in our heart to start a physical church.

With us not wanting to turn people away, we started meeting together as a prayer group and started having a little teaching within the prayer group. But then, we were bursting out of our living room. Our house could squeeze 30 to 60 people in it butt here was not much you can do in it anymore with people wall-to-wall. We had John Mayers and his wife leading worship through singing and playing a guitar. We had all the elements for church, which led to people pressing us to start a church and they wouldn’t go anywhere else. With us growing but not ready for a church, we had to look into bigger spaces and started with one conference room in a hotel. However, we eventually consumed every conference room in the hotel as we continued to grow.

As we grew, we saw a lot of gifts and opportunities. As a result, we wanted to start a physical church where everybody was included and invited. Even if they seemed like they didn’t fit into a“traditional church”, they would be accepted at our church. I sought God and God spoke to my heart and said, “I want you to start a church and I’m going to send everybody that is like you to the church. You will have a church and they’ll be other churches, too. There will be people that I send to those churches, but you will become your own individual church with the people that I’m creating and building for your church.” That’s how we became our own identity and individual church with our own personality that God established because God put this in Ricky’s heart. Everyone from various backgrounds would be welcomed as family and they would have a place for them to go to church in a family… MiraclePlace Church.

Here we are still standing today with the same message from 2001: Everyone from various backgrounds are welcomed as family and this is a place for you to actually go to church in a family… Miracle Place Church in Baker, LA. Come as you are, You Belong Here!